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A pterosaurian vertebra from the Upper Cretaceous of the Saratov Region

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A dorsal vertebra referred to as Azhdarchidae indet. from the Rybushka Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Lower Campanian) of the Beloe Ozero locality in the Saratov Region is described. Its vertebral centrum has a hypapophysis and, at the base of the neural arch, there is a large pneumatic foramen. The vertebra possibly belongs to Volgadraco bogolubovi Averianov, Arkhangelskii et Pervushov, 2008, described from the Rybushka Formation of the Shirokii Karamysh 2 locality in the Saratov Region.

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Original Russian Text © A.O. Averianov, E.V. Popov, 2014, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, No. 3, pp. 101–104.

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Averianov, A.O., Popov, E.V. A pterosaurian vertebra from the Upper Cretaceous of the Saratov Region. Paleontol. J. 48, 326–329 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030114030034

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